Question

[Lê Quỳnh Anh]

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word (s) for each of the blanks

INTELLIGENCE TEST

          Schools exams are, generally speaking, the first kind of tests we take. They find out how much knowledge we have (41) ____. But do they really show how intelligent we are? After all, isn’t it a fact that some people who are very successful academically don’t have any (42)____ sense? Intelligence is the speed at which we can understand and (43)____ to new situations and it is usually tested by logic puzzles. Although scientists are now preparing advanced computer technology that will be able to “read” our brains, for the present tests are still the most popular ways of measuring intelligence. A person’s IQ is their intelligence as it is measured by a special test. The most common IQ tests are run by Mensa, an organization that was founded in England in 1946. By 1976 it had 1300 members in Britain. Today there are 44000 in Britain and 100000 worldwide, largely in the US. People taking the tests are judged in relation to an average score of 100, and those score over 148 are entitled to join Mensa. This (44)___ at 2% of the population. Anyone from the age of six can take the tests. All the questions are straightforward and most people can answer them if (45)____ enough time. But that’s the problems – the whole point of the tests is that they’re against the clock

Điền ô số 44

A. adds up

B. turns to

C. comes up

D. works out

Answer 1

[Dương Hoàn Anh]

Đáp án D

“This (44) ___ at 2% of the population.”

Tạm dịch: Điều này______________2% tổng dân số

Chúng ta có đáp án D – work out (phr.v) – dùng cho các phép tính toán cái gì

Theo oxford ta có: work out (at something) - if something works out at something, you calculate that it will be a particular amount

Các đáp án khác đều k thích hợp về nghĩa

A – add up – có ý nghĩa

B – turn to sb/sth: kiếm sự ủng hộ, động viên, an ủi từ ai

C – come up = appear : xuất hiện